By Colleen O’Donnell
With AI’s pivotal role in the proliferation of fake news and Big Data, is a positive co-existence with “intelligent” machines possible?
My guest today is Ciaran Carr, a student of Journalism and New Media at Wayne State University, who has been studying the uses of artificial intelligence in online media and its role in generating and disseminating disinformation.
This podcast is part of a two-part series exploring the urgent issue of “fake news,” its impact on the ability to maintain a functioning democracy and other far-reaching consequences, from public health crises to failing trust in institutions, and from growing divisions within communities to those within individual families.
Who benefits from the misinformation being spread across new media channels, including social media and other alternative media platforms? According to Carr, it’s clearly only the creator of the misinformation who benefits. But he says we shouldn’t only see AI as problematic, citing its many life-enhancing and sometimes lifesaving advancements.
Take a listen:
Who is most susceptible to be manipulated by fake news – and what can people do to temper its influence on them personally, and in their communities? You can find out more about that in the part 2 of this series, as Ciaran Carr turns the tables on me in his Mass Disinformation podcast, and asks about who is most susceptible to being manipulated by fake news, who is being targeted – and how people can protect themselves:
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